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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday. November 13,1986 Yugoslavia considers tighter Money rules. In Nni-rtl%4v Lii Tow a test flail Belgrade Yugoslavia a non aligned Yugoslavia May soon follow the example of some soviet bloc coun tries by forcing foreign tourists to Exchange Given amounts of Money when crossing the Border the Politika newspaper reported tuesday. A Bill has been sent to the Federal parliament for approval As part of the govern ment s efforts toward closer control of for eign Exchange operations and in an Effort world  to increase hard currency earnings. The stipulation of a mandatory sum of Money to be exchanged into dinars per Day of slay also is designed to Clamp Down on illegal foreign currency in change in the country. But it might Deler some Webern tourists who to far have not been required 10 Exchange mandatory amounts upon entry. The envisaged daily Exchange requirement which was not detailed in the report is expected to be introduced in the near future Yugoslavia was scheduled to earn an official si.3 billion from tourism this year but according to conservative Esti mates the actual figure should be at least $2.5 billion with the balance ending Upin the pockets of yugoslav landlords and private entrepreneurs. Wilh inflation approaching the 1,00 percent Mark Possession of foreign Money permits comparatively peat Sav Ings for yugoslav citizens. Many foreigners also come 10 Yugo Slavia with cheap tvs videos and other electronic equipment to pay Tor their vacation a Deal profitable to both tides As no customs duties arc paid. Yugoslavia owes some $ 19 billion to for eign creditors and some economist have said next year May prove crucial in Yugo Slavia s efforts to service Western debts. Italian underworld figures gunned Down 4 dead Caserta Italy a gunmen firing from a car killed four local underworld figures and wounded a fifth wednesday police reported. The five were Cut Down As they stood at a construction site in Casorla a City near Naples. Police said the killings appeared to be part of a feud Between rival factions of he Camorrah the neapolitan version of the mafia. Princess Anne s husband overturns land Rover Melbourne. Australia a Cape. Mark Phillips husband of Britain s Princess Annees caped with minor cuts and bruises monday when he overturned a land Rover near Airey s Inci West of Melbourne officials said. One of the passengers in the vehicle was taken to a Hospital for treatment of head injuries and two other passengers suffered bruises and Shock officials said. Phillips was driving one of three land rovers and four Range rovers in an off Road Demon stration organized by Jaguar Rover Australia. He was travelling in a Convoy when he lost control on the dirt track officials said. The vehicle fish tailed out of control and overturned be fore Landing on its wheels they said. Kidnapped lawyer freed in Italy after Ransom paid Cinque fronds Italy up1 Kidnap pers released a prominent local lawyer wednes Day two Days after his family paid them 1428.000 As the final instalment of a heavy ran som. The bandits had held Michele Belziti 60, at a hideout in Calabria s wild Aspromonte mountains in the toe of Taly since july 14. They had seized him from his Home at Cinque Frondi. Police said the family paid the final Ransom instalment of $428,000 10 one of the kidnappers at an undisclosed meeting place in the Aspro Monte Region late monday. They did not Dis close the total Ransom paid by the family. Belziti told police the bandits delivered him 10 his Home Village Early wednesday morning. Computer firm warns threat of data loss major risk London up a computer services firm said monday Many British companies Are risk ing commercial suicide by not taking seriously the problem of computer disasters that can wipe out vital data. Thom Emi s computer services company Dat solve said computer disasters sometimes costing firms hundreds of thousands of pounds in Tost profits and data and threatening their commercial survival were running at the Rale of nearly 30 a year in Britain. More than a Quarter of Britain s lop 500 accounting firms reported a computer disaster among one or More of their clients in the but five years and 67 percent of these disasters could have been avoided the firm said. British minister offers citizens finds on curbing spread of aids London a a government minister tuesday warned britons thai to Stop the spread of aids they must stick to one sexual partner or use condoms. Social services Secretary Norman Fowler made the unusually explicit announcement after a Cabinet com Mil acc on aids decided to launch a National leaflet and advertising Campaign. National debate on the incurable disease has be come widespread and officials have been expressing Hope that Britain can learn from the . Experience. The most important thing is that the Public should stick to one partner. If Hal is not possible then they must Sec that a condom is used Fowler said. The committee set up by prime minister Margaret Thatcher and headed by her Deputy. Lord Whitelaw will have to decide on How explicit to make the advertise ments and leaflets without causing widespread offence. The Campaign was expected to Cost $7 million More than double previous government sponsored generalized warnings that critics say made Little Impact. In recent months Slock prices in companies manufacturing condoms have risen and newspapers from the sensational to the serious have devoted much space to aids or acquit cd immune deficiency syndrome. Polls also reveal hard line attitudes toward sufferers from aids which is about As widespread in Britain with a population of 56 million As it was in the United Stales five years ago. Latest official figures show s48 people have contracted aids in Britain and 130 of them Nave died. Most of the victims. 487. Were homosexual or bisexual men who along with intravenous drug abusers and Haemophiliacs Are among the most vulnerable to aids in Europe and the United states. The fatal disease is transmitted sexually and through contaminated Needles or blood transfusions. According to world health organization statistics most West european nations have aids rates of less than 2 per 100,000 of population Well behind the United stale 10.5. The British rate is 0.69. People need to be frightened to change their habits said or. Charles Farthing. Aids specialist at St. Stephen s Hospital in Southwest London. He favors an explicit advertising Campaign. A Harris poll published sunday in the weekly observer showed 63 percent of respondents favored compulsory testing of the entire population for the aids virus. Most medical bodies regard such a move As both impractical and cruel. Eighty two percent favored the even More Contro recommendations to of tent aids pm cml by Urti Nih i Mil i Ednac try b Protop sir no or lot Nudi Takh in Chhon. Mun who till   told of to vow  no Unni i. Unmet a 01 Maun t _ Mol us Buttar div it Fin Iran kiting t Mil me and it Nib my Hersial measure of forcing All visitors to undergo tests particularly those from Africa among the worlds worst hit regions. Nearly half the Sample of 1,050 britons thought they could be infected by drinking from the cup of a earner. Researchers have said the disease is not that easily transmitted. Almost All Britain s 10 National newspapers on tuesday prominently reported aids stories several on the front  Robert Runcie said tuesday the anglican Church will publish nov. 27 an aids Booklet tilled some guidelines for pastoral  Hess chaplain leaving West Berlin Berlin a the prison chaplain to Hitler s former Deputy Rudolf Hess is leaving West Berlin following published reports that he had been dismissed for planning to smuggle Hess memoirs and testament out of jail. Chaplain Charles Gabel. A French protestant Lold the associated press tuesday he planned to leave Ber Lin later this week but declined to say Why. Gabel has been visiting Hess at Spandau prison for the past nine Yean. Hess the 92-year-old former Dep Uty to Hitler is the Only inmate in Spandau where he is serving a life sentence he received at the Nuernberg War crimes trials in 1946. I am not allowed by Allied military regulations to comment on anything to do with Jess Gabel told the associated press. Gabel 54, also Bas served the French military Community in West Berlin. He told a he a planning to return to France. The Berliner Morge Posl newspaper tuesday said the allies dismissed Gobol under soviet pressure on suspicion that he Hod planned to smuggle nets memoirs out of Spandau prison. The Hamburg published Bild newspaper had a Simi tar report a Day earlier but said Gabel wanted to smug Gle out Hess last will and testament. Bild said the manuscripts were discovered when Gabel was on vacation in France and when Hess was out of his cell. Allied military authorities refused to comment on the reports which quoted unnamed sources. They Alto refused to confirm that Gabel was leaving. The Berliner Morgen Post which Alto spoke with Gabel quoted him As saying Rudolf Hess is not writ ing any memoirs. I never intended to smuggle any papers out of the  Gabel told the a he had not seen Hen since the end of july. _ Spandau prison is in the British sector of West Berlin. U.s., British French and soviet military authorities n  Aith Conson. Hess who was arrested and jailed by the British after he flew to Scotland in 1941 on what be Wegl was a peace Mission has been imprisoned in Al Fath since he conviction Al Nuernberg. He is Ben 4w Lone inmate in the 600-cell prison since 1966. V  
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